David Bralow co-founded Lawyers for Reporters. He is General Counsel at The Intercept and previously served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Digital First Media, now known as MediaNews Group, and as Assistant General Counsel at the Tribune Company, where he provided legal advice to their newspapers, websites and television stations.
David was a part of the team at the Orlando Sentinel that won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award in 2001 for the Sentinel’s coverage of NASCAR and at the Sun-Sentinel that won the 2013 Gold Medal for Public Service Pulitzer Prize for articles on police violating speeding laws. He received recognition from the Florida Bar in 1999 for his work in helping to get the journalist-friendly Florida Shield Law passed by the Florida legislature.
David attended law school at Temple University where he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. Prior to attending law school, he was a reporter and editor for newspapers in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.